Abstract: Prefixation is traditionally studied and regarded as the process of word formation. However, in this paper we try to approach the issue of prefixation from a different perspective. This paper describe...

Abstract: Nakon uvodnog utvrđivanja teorijske razlike između tradicionalnog aristotelovskog i suvremenog kognitivnog poimanja procesa ljudske kategorizacije, te navođenja prednosti kognitivnog pristupa, autor u...

Abstract: Istraživanje prezentirano u ovom radu analiza je poredbenih frazema u engleskom i hrvatskom jeziku. Cilj istraživanja je utvrditi odnose između poredbenih frazema, poredbi, metafora i metonimija, kara...

Abstract: This paper discusses the tension that exists between linguistic and psychological approaches to metaphor. It aims to demonstrate that interdisciplinary efforts are probably not all of equal value when...

Abstract: Legal discourse has been studied so far by numerous linguists and legal experts. Linguistic studies have predominantly focused on stylistic elements of the legal register, such as morphological and sy...

Abstract: The goal of this paper is to analyze the metaphorical construal of Croatia’s EU accession in the political discourse of selected EU press. We first analyze the metaphorical expressions collected betwe...

Abstract: We wish to establish to what extent the methods of analysis developed within the framework of the Cognitive Theory of Metaphor (CTM) can be applied to idiom analysis. Conventionalised figurative metap...